Exhibitor for wall-paper or other goods



Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

H. MIOHAELS.

EXHIBITOR POE WALL PAPER OR OTHER GOODS.-

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UNITED STATES P TnNT OFFICE.

HERMAN MICI-IAELS, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

EXHIBITOR FOR WALL-PAPER OR OTHER GOODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 409,218, dated August 20, 1889. Application filed March 23, 1889. Serial No. 304,523. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN MICHAELS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exhibitors for NVall-Iaper and other Goods, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates'to a IIlGlChitllCliSG-GX- hibitor, more especially intended for the display of samples of wall-paper and other plain or figured fabrics. Its object is to furnish an exhibitor of simple construction adapted to be used separately or to serve as a door of a case or compartment, and upon which may be readily secured and as readily removed samples of goods and in such position as to be well displayed to View, such samples being, when the exhibitor is used as a door, of the styles and goods stored within the case or compartment; to which ends the invention consists in the features and constructions more particularly hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings are illustrated embodiments of my invention, Figure 1 thereof being an elevation of one form of embodiment; Fig. 2, a top or edge view thereof; Fig. 3, a View of one of the holding devices detached from the base; Fig. 4, an elevation of another embodiment; Fig. 5, a top edge view thereof; Fig. 6, an elevation of another form.

The reference-numeral l in these figures indicates the base of the exhibitor, which base may be any suitable flat or plain surface. In Figs. 1 and 2 this base is shown as beveled at its edges to form. a raised portion, and it may have transverse or longitudinal grooves over its face to divide the raised portion into several panels 2. At proper points along its upper edge such points, when the edge is beveled or the base made into panel shape being above the lower or sunken portion, are apertures or holes, in which the turned-over ends a of the holding-wires 3 are inserted, such turned-over ends forming pivots by which such wires may be turned down upon the base or turned up away therefrom. These holding-wires are formed at their other ends into spring or snap hooks 5, whose upper inclines 11 yield under pressure sufficiently to pass beyond the lower edge of the base and retain the holding-wires 3 firmly against the base. Two or more such holdingwires may be used, and they may be connected by wires 6 6, forming a frame, which may be again subdivided by one or more wires 7, extending from one Wire 6 to a second wire 6. If now the hook ends 5 of the wires 3 be released from engagement with the base 1, the wires 3 may be swung outward from the base and the samples to be displayed be laid thereupon, when the hooks 5 are forced into re-engagement with the edge of the base, bringing the wires 3 down thereupon and holding such samples firmly thereon.

For the display of some goods the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 may be preferred, wherein the base 1 is a plane surface or a frame upon which are secured the oval or curved fronts 8 S, forming curved or oval panels, there being holding-wires 3 at the edge of each panel, if desired. In lieu thereof a frame of holding-wires 3, with cross-wires 6 and 7, may be used, the cross-Wire 7 taking in the valleys or depressions between the curved panels, upon each of which a sample different from its neighbors may be used.

Such exhibitors may be used about a store as independent articles hung in conspicuous positions, or where closed cases or compartments are used for the safer and cleaner storage of the goods the exhibitors may form the fronts of such cases or compartments, being hinged thereto by hinges 9, or otherwise suitably secured thereto.

In the form shown in Fig. 6 the base 1 is provided at top and bottom with ledges .12, projecting slightly therefrom through perforations in which slide or pass the holdingwires 3, securing the samples upon the face of the base, and such arrangement may be used with the fiat form shown in Figs. 1 and 6, or with the curved or oval panels shown in Figs. 4. and 5.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A merchandise-exhibitor consisting of a base, curved or oval panels thereon, and

goods-holders pivoted at one end to the base for springing over the edge thereof at the and snapping or springing over the edge other end, substantially as set forth. 10 thereof at the other end, substantially as set In testimony whereof I affix my signature in forth. presence of two witnesses.

2. A merchandise-exhibitor consisting of a HERMAN MICHAELS. base, and a frame thereon for holding the 'Witnesses: goods thereto, having vertical wires pivoted J. B. WILLsEA, at one end in the base and having snap ends A. J. OBRIEN. 

